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Perceiving Splendor: The "Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses" in Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics
This study argues that the so-called "doctrine of the spiritual senses" should be recognized as a vital component of the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). The doctrine of the spiritual senses ...
Carnal Resurrection: Sexuality and Sexual Difference in Early Christianity
This dissertation explores the ways in which early Christians thought about resurrected bodies in terms of desires, sexual practices, and roles, as well as in terms of how maleness and femaleness are distinguished. The ...
Harnessing the Prophetic Voice: Rewriting and Allusion in Prophetic Collections from the Second Century B.C.E.
This dissertation examines the use of hypertextual and allusive compositional practices in prophetic collections from the second century B.C.E. Our analysis centers on the three best-preserved examples: 4QApocryphon of ...
The Vital Landscape: Evangelical Religious Practice and the Culture of Nature in America, 1790-1870
Evangelicalism, historians have long noted, was a movement born in field, forest, and stream. Like most truisms, however, this one has rarely been explored as deeply as it deserves. Using the tools of cultural history, ...
From The River:Jesuit Missions and Exemplarity in Spanish Colonial Philippines 1581-1768
This dissertation is about Jesuit missionaries and discrete moments of translation, accommodation and exemplarity from the time of their arrival in the Philippines to their expulsion in 1768. Using an interdisciplinary ...
The Place of the King Wherein He Dwelt: Reading Ephrem's Mariology in its Contexts
(2023-03-01)
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This dissertation examines a fundamental paradox in Christianity. How can the omnipotent, omnipresent God be said to be present within Mary, mother of Jesus Christ? I pose this question of the poetry of Ephrem the ...
The Cult of the Saints and its Christological Foundations in Eustratios of Constantinople's De statu animarum post mortem
In this study, I propose that the cult of the saints in Eustratios of Constantinople's De statu animarum post mortem has a Christological foundation. I examine this thesis from cultural, historical, and theological ...